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  <h1 class="topictitle1">Introduction</h1>
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    <h4 class="sectiontitle">About the Application</h4>
    <p>Nutanix provides an integrated solution with the physical infrastructure (Nutanix hyper-converged server) in terms of hardware and the virtual infrastructure (Nutanix AHV virtualization) in terms of software.</p>
    <p>Nutanix Prism is a management and monitoring tool provided by Nutanix. It provides a unified management interface to simplify data center O&amp;M. Nutanix Prism includes the Prism Element (PE) platform and Prism Central (PC) platform, which manage a single cluster and multiple clusters, respectively. For more information, visit the Nutanix official website.</p>
    <p>The <span>product</span> supports comprehensive protection for Nutanix VM data. With the deployed client, the <span>product</span> provides data protection functions, such as backup, replication, and restoration. The <span>product</span> controls the backup and restoration processes and exchanges data based on the client for data protection.</p>
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    <p>The <span>product</span> provides protection for Nutanix VM data, including VM operating systems (OSs), application files, user data, and configuration information.</p>
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    <h4 class="sectiontitle">Backup and Restoration Granularity</h4>
    <p>The <span>product</span> can back up and restore Nutanix VM data based on different granularities.</p>
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     <li>Backup granularity<p>VM level: The entire VM is backed up.</p></li>
     <li>Restoration granularity
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       <li>VM level: The entire VM is restored.</li>
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